Posts Tagged: action-research - (39 found)

Lyndon Schneiders (2003). Churchill Fellowship Report: an investigation of land use planning in remote areas to apply to the resolution of environmental, native title and development disputes in Northern Australia

a case study by Christine Herzog and Deborah Radford attempt to understand why a women’s group using alternative processes was not able to survive differences that arose within the group, and to share the learning.

Testimonials

Community organising is…

"Community organizing is the process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and building an institution that is democratically controlled by that constituency that can develop the capacity to take on further problems and that embodies the will and the power of that constituency."
Dave Beckwith & Christina Lopez

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2014-11-20T17:02:58+00:00

“Community organizing is the process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and building an...

Rahindranith Tagore, Bengali poet

To join with people so we can work with rather than for them, we need to position ourselves to hear their stories and to work with their goals and agenda... in effect to see through the eyes of the other.

2014-03-30T07:59:25+00:00

To join with people so we can work with rather than for them, we need to position ourselves to hear their stories and to work with their goals and agenda… in effect to see through the eyes of the other.

Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Where do we go from here?’

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action with education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

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2015-02-11T15:49:46+00:00

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action with education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should...

Movement Building Center

Social Movements happen when a fundamental injustice is felt deeply and widely enough that communities mobilize to challenge power holders, institutions, and society’s norms. Successful movements fundamentally shift social values and culture toward a new vision.

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2014-12-04T17:15:55+00:00

Social Movements happen when a fundamental injustice is felt deeply and widely enough that communities mobilize to challenge power holders, institutions, and society’s norms. Successful movements fundamentally shift social values and culture toward a new vision.

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/movement-building-center/

Arthur Schopenhauer

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

2014-03-30T08:01:54+00:00

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

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